Monday, September 12, 2005
11:00 AM
CSB 209
Takeo Kanade
Carnegie Mellon U.
Vision-Guided Autonomous Robots; Past and Future (Distinguished Seminar Series)
Vision-guided autonomous robots are information-driven systems that can see, think, and act. Application areas of today's robotics systems are expanding from traditional factory floors to more complex outdoor and daily environments. I will describe several systems that I was involved in developing: autonomous driving car, robot helicopter, EyeVision for Super Bowl broadcast, and humanoid robot. As glamorous as they sound, the development of such systems requires the integration of many interdisciplinary expertise and technologies. Sprinkled with tales of the fun in developing such robots, this talk will provide a perspective of past and present technologies as well as speculations for future robots.